Dried Pepper Bread

Dried Pepper Bread is a preserved food item made from Pepper Bread using a Dehydrator. It is part of the dried food system and can later be turned back into its original meal with a Rehydrator, making it a way to store cooked food in a more durable form for long-term use.

The conversion is straightforward: 6000 kcal of Pepper Bread and 12 kg of Plastic produce 6 units of Dried Pepper Bread and 6 kg of Water in a Dehydrator. Each unit of Dried Pepper Bread can then be rehydrated back into Pepper Bread by combining 1 unit of Dried Pepper Bread with 1 kg of Water in a Rehydrator. This makes the item useful when you want to stockpile food without keeping it in its cooked form.

• Dried Pepper Bread is not a separate meal in the usual sense; it is a preserved version of Pepper Bread.
• The Dehydrator output includes water, so the process partially offsets the mass of the input food.
• The rehydration step returns the food to Pepper Bread, preserving its role as a ready-to-eat cooked item.
• Because the recipe requires Plastic, the item is tied to mid-to-late progression when industrial materials are available.
• The recipe converts food in batches of six units, which is useful for preparing storage in standardized amounts.

This makes Dried Pepper Bread a practical storage product for colonies that have reliable Pepper Bread production but want a way to keep surplus food compact and recoverable later.